Neckwear-retaining button



(No Model.)

V. FEGLEY. NBOKWEAR RETAINING BUTTON.

No. 600,220. Patented Mar. 8,1898.

WITNESSES G 7 ATTORNEYS,

UNiTnn STATES AFFICE.

PATENT NECKWEAR-RETAINING BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,220, dated March 8, 1898.

Application filed May 12, 1897. Serial No. 636,149. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern.-

Beit known that LVICTOR FEGLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Neckwear-Retaining Buttons, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a button provided with a pin which may be projected from one of the heads thereof so as to engage a necktie or band of an article-of neckwear for preventing the same from rising or riding upward, lateral shifting, or other improper displacement, said pin being afterward movable into the head, so as to be inclosed and concealed when not required for service.

Figure 1 represents a rear view of a button embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section thereof on line 00 m, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 represents a section thereof on line 3 y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a side elevation of the button.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a button which, excepting the feature of my invention applied thereto, may be of usual construction.

B designates the back or rear head of the button, the same being chambered and containing the pin C, whose head is guided in the slot D, formed in the rear plate of said back B, said head being accessible, whereby the shank of the pin may be passed through the opening or slot E in the periphery of the back.

F designates a spring which is located within the back B and has one end suitably secured thereto, the other end bearing against the side of the shank of the pin, so that the portion or neck O of the latter adjacent to the head may be held in either deflected end G or H of the slot D.

It will be seen that when it is desired to project the pin from the back, as in Fig. 2, the head J of the pin is pressed by the fingernail until said head leaves the end G of the slot, when the neck 0' moves in the slot D, while the shank of the pin passes through the opening E and assumes the position shown in said Fig. 2, it being noticed that the neck 0' is forced into the deflected end H of the slot D and so controlled that return of the pin is prevented, the wall of the opening E preventing lateral motion of the shank of the pin. A necktie or band of an article of neckwear may now be pierced by the pin, and as the button is held in the collar the rising or shifting of the tie or band is prevented, it being evident that when the invention is applied to the front of a collar the back B will be in front.

\Vhen service of the pin is not required, it is withdrawn by properly pressing the head thereof in the present case upwardly to the full extent,when the neck 0 occupies the deflected end G of the slot, and owing to the action of the spring F against the shank the pin is prevented from dropping and the concealment of its shank within the back is prevented.

Having thus described my inventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A button comprising two heads and having a reciprocating pin within one of the heads thereof, the same being adapted to have its shank projected therefrom, and afterward restored thereinto.

2. A button having two heads, one of which is chambered, a pin therein, a slot in the outer plate of said head for the passage of the neck of said pin, and an opening in the periphery of said head for the passage of the shank therethro ugh.

3. A button comprising two heads provided with a sliding pin in one of the heads thereof, a slot in said head for the passage of the head portion of said pin, and a spring on said head adapted to bear against said pin for holding it in operative and inoperative positions.

4. A button having a chambered head with a slot in the back thereof, a reciprocating pin having a neck movable in said slot and provided with a projecting head and means within said head for holding said pin in fixed position.

VICTOR FEGLEY. 

